It doesn't look like you come away with much at all: Day 1 : is a very detailed lecture (and demonstrations) of zPDT and a little z/OS. No student RDzUT or tokens or disks are involved. If students have a laptop with (1) wireless connection and (2) a 3270 emulator, they may connect to my zPDT system and log onto TSO. There is usually much discussion about capacity and performance. Students should have a little Linux background and some z/OS skills in order to understand the lecture.
Day 2 : has the students (or student teams) installing Linux, zPDT, and z/OS. It does not involve RDzUT. We can do some basic networking to allow the various student z/OS systems to communicate with each other. So on day 1 you basically connect to the lecturer's zPDT and no RDzUT tokens or disks are involved (is this a dongle or similar device?). Day 2 is an install of zPDT and z/OS perhaps this is on the lecturers machine? Been trying for a few years now to get IBM to come up with a Flex replacement and the zPDT still seems overpriced for small developers or students. On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Steve Comstock <st...@trainersfriend.com> wrote: > On 5/16/2011 2:11 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >> On Tue, 17 May 2011 06:04:43 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: >> >>> They are charging $2200 for a two day workshop! >>> >> That's a fraction of what z/OS costs otherwise. >> >> Do participants get to keep it? >> >>>> http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/workshops/GR0422?Open >> >> -- gil > > > Excellent question, and the write up is ambiguous. > > Note it says "It produces a System z environment on > an Intel-compatible computer, capable of running > z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE or Linux for System z." So maybe > you walk away with the environment but no OS. > > Partnerworld members can get the OS, though. > > > -- > > Kind regards, > > -Steve Comstock > The Trainer's Friend, Inc. > > 303-393-8716 > http://www.trainersfriend.com > > * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! > + Training your people is an excellent investment > > * Try our new tool for calculating your Return On Investment > for training dollars at > http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
